Heather Rose

And everything else.

Yes.

The book that instantly comes to mind is Light in August by William Faulkner.

I thought when I read it that it was about the most perfect form of the novel I'd ever found.

something about the arc of the characters and the way that it seems to go on a slight segue with Byron Hightower, the character, and then it all adds up in this extraordinary way.

And I thought, wow, that is an incredibly clever novel.

But the books I probably have revisited most often as a writer have been Virginia Woolf's

to The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.

Those are great favourites of mine and I listen to them often as audio books.

I think the characters of those two women have really enriched my life and Orlando, you know.

I just, I love the way she stretches language in a way that is bold and brave and as if she's considered brave

the literary canon and made it entirely her own.

The book that comes to mind there is Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things.

A wonderful novel.

A wonderful novel.

And it was the first book of hers that I read.

Yes, I am.

Yes.

And I thought, my, you're an extraordinary novelist.

And then I went to Eat, Pray, Love because I thought, oh, maybe it's going to be much better than I imagined.